Bewick Pit

HER Number

1161

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Bewick Pit

Place

Willington

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific

Colliery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Three wagonways, (HER refs. 1130, 1083 and 1162) run through or past this pit site and may have been associated with it.

Easting

430390

Northing

568400

Grid Reference

NZ430390568400

Sources

<< HER 1161 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405576; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/125 5007 04-APR-1946